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Knut Olai Thornæs
Norwegian newspaper editor and politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Knut Olai Thornæs (30 May 1874 – 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party from 1900, and represented the party politically, but joined the Communist Party upon the split in 1923. Thornæs was the editor-in-chief of several newspapers, most notably Ny Tid.
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